Paul Gowens

Paul has been involved in pre hospital resuscitation in Edinburgh, man and boy, for over 20 years and been involved in facilitating the work of the RRG since the original TOPCAT days…

He is currently a Health Foundation, GenerationQ, Leadership Fellow and has recently completed the MSc in Leadership programme at Ashridge Business School.

He is currently undertaking a secondment to the Scottish Government, Health and Social Care Directorate as a national clinical advisor with a wide portfolio including, out of hospital cardiac arrest and major trauma systems.

Paul has over twenty five years of experience within the Scottish Ambulance Service and has fulfilled a number of key roles from a HEMS paramedic through to his current strategic role at Scottish Government.

Patient Safety Congress, Liverpool, June 2014, “Setting up a telemetry network: Lessons from Scotland’s Ambulance Service in improving quality and patient safety for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and the future”

Medic One Resuscitation Academy, Seattle, October 2014, “Mission: Film Recording”